Every NBA and NHL second-round playoff series, ranked |

06/05/2025 14:11 - The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Be like Mikal Bridges today. Don't get me wrong: This is a wonderful time of year. But if you happen to, say, like the extremely popular sports of hockey and basketball, it can be a lot to ingest, especially as both sports conduct the early rounds of their postseasons simultaneously.  Thus, the Pulse braintrust decided we should rank the ongoing second-round series for your clarity, and to provide certain bulletin-board fodder for...